POLS 131: Comparative Government and Politics (HC) [Spring 2014]: Background Information

The Inter-Parliamentary Union maintains this database of information about houses of parliament worldwide.

This portal, geared to citizen needs, provides access to government services. It is translated into English. See also the sites for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Parliament.

This very rich site includes documents, news, analytical commentaries, and regular updates. It is maintained by University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Stanford University is archiving web sites from political organizations, newspapers, research centers, and individual political figures.

This February 2014 report provides a larger view of issues involved in the current Ukraine crisis.

See research, publications, and corruption by country and topic under the tab "What We Do."

Note in particular the Human Development Reports and the country profiles.

This 2013 report provides some general background on the Middle East region.

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization contains over 600 entries on the essential topics of globalization including such entries as: nation-state, neo-liberalism, transnational corporations, and the Twitter Revolution.

The WomanStats Project is the most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world. The Project facilitates understanding the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation-states. We comb the extant literature and conduct expert interviews to find qualitative and quantitative information on over 360 indicators of women's status in 175 countries. Our Database expands daily, and access to it is free of charge. - website description.